RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- Saudi Arabia said Friday that three women and their seven children, including a one-year-old, had been prevented from travelling to Syria to join jihadists. The women, who are...

BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rouba El-Husseini and Layal Abu Rahal- Islamic State group fighters seized around 2,000 civilians to use as "human shields" Friday as they fled their stronghold of Manbij in northern...

TRIPOLI, LIBYA, Rim Taher- Pro-government forces battled Thursday to clear the Islamic State group from its main Libyan stronghold of Sirte, after dealing a major blow to the jihadists by seizing...

OTTAWA, CANADA, Michel Comte- An alleged Islamic State sympathizer shot dead by Canadian federal police had been detained last year for pro-IS media posts, and an investigation has revealed extensive...

PARIS, FRANCE- France on Thursday expressed alarm at reports of a deadly chemical attack Wednesday in the Syrian battleground city of Aleppo. Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a statement he...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Nicolas Revise- The United States on Wednesday denounced the "genocide" carried out by the Islamic State group against Christians, Shiites and Yazidis, as the State...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syrian doctors in opposition districts of Aleppo have accused the United States of inaction in the face of repeated atrocities in the devastated city. In a heart-wrenching letter...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- Up to two million people in Syria's Aleppo have gone without running water for the past four days, the United Nations warned Tuesday, describing the situation as "catastrophic"....

TUNIS, TUNISIA- Tunisia will not be able to hold local elections in March 2017, electoral commission chief Chafik Sarsar said late Monday. "Let's forget (that date), we aren't talking about it any...